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Tag Thompson shows his steer — named BenJammin Franklin Rodriguez the 3rd Cubit — at last year’s Park County Bred and Fed show during the Park County Fair. Thompson, age 11, now has his own brand and cattle company and plans to show in this year’s sale. ‘His names are much shorter this year,’ said his mom, Maria Berchtold. Market shows take place Wednesday through Friday, culminating with the Junior Livestock Sale on Saturday. Tribune file photo by Carla Wensky
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4-H, FFA livestock shows continue at 2020 Park County Fair, lead up to Saturday’s Junior Livestock Sale that includes online bidding BY TESSA BAKER Tribune Features Editor
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s the year unraveled and the coronavirus pandemic upended most parts of life, it has been rare to see anything guaranteed in 2020. But months ago — at a time when most things were being canceled or postponed — local 4-H and FFA youth were assured: The Park County Junior Livestock Sale would happen in some form in 2020. “We told everybody from the get-go: I do not know how this is gonna look, but we will provide something for you, and we want you to have this learning experience,” said Joe Bridges, chairman of the Junior Livestock Sale. Youth learn lifetime skills from their projects, he said. “It's vital to give them that opportunity to have that and not just say, ‘Well, you don't get it for one year out of your life,’” Bridges said. After seeing kids grow up in 4-H and FFA and graduate, Bridges said you realize how
short of a timeframe it is for youth to get this experience. Following market shows Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the unique 2020 fair week culminates with Saturday’s there'll be a live feed going on sale, beginning at 1 p.m. in the for them to be able to watch it and hear the auctioneer.” Sale Barn. Online buyers will be able to “The sale will happen just like it always has happened place bids when kids are in the ring with their with kids animals, so and the ani“we can take mals coming ‘That’s deep in my those bids live through,” heart, knowing that off the interBridges said. net, along with “We’ll have these kids are still those that are an auctioneer, going to be taken there personringmen, peocare of, because ally,” he said. ple sitting in A link to the stands.” that’s what kind of the online However, for the first community we live in.’ sale is available by visittime, the JuJoe Bridges ing the MM nior Livestock Junior Livestock Sale Auction webSale will have chairman site at https:// an online commmauctions. ponent, provided by MM Auction Services online/ and then clicking “current auctions.” in Powell. “That online version will be The online auction allows buygoing in conjunction with the ers to register in advance and live auction,” Bridges said. place a maximum bid once the “While the animal is in the ring, sale order is ready on Saturday.
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the opportunity to still participate, Bridges said. “We really encourage them to just bid online wherever they feel comfortable from,” he said. Under the State of Wyoming’s public health orders, livestock sales are exempt from restrictions on the number of people who can gather. “So number wise, we’re OK that way,” Bridges said. “We would just ask people to take the precautions that they would normally take when they are out in larger crowds or in confined spaces when they're out shopping … whatever it is that they feel helps themselves, we would encourage them to follow those protocols.”
‘THE COMMUNITY IS JUST ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL’ Bridges has been asked how he thinks the 2020 sale is going to go or what people should expect.
“My statement always has been and will continue to be: Every time I think things are gonna go south at the sale is when we have the greatest success,” Bridges said. “And the community is just absolutely phenomenal when it comes to things like this.” He said that community includes all of Park County. “That's deep in my heart, knowing that these kids are still going to be taken care of, because that's what kind of community we live in,” Bridges said. Last year’s record-setting sale brought in $414,528 for local FFA and 4-H youth, surpassing expectations. “I don't know how many times you can sit in this position and still be wowed, but it just never ceases to amaze me,” said Bridges, who’s led the sale See Sale, Page 8
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GAISFORD ENJOYS SHOWING GOATS AT PARK COUNTY FAIR April. Since then, she has cared for the pair on a daily basis, often working with them and walking ith so much canceled in them. Some days require more work. 2020, Zoie Gaisford is thankful the livestock For instance, Gaisford usually shows and sale will continue at stays with the animals during the Fourth of July fireworks. the Park County Fair. “That’s always interesting,” “That’s always the thing I look forward to the most during the she said. “I’ve had goats react summer, is fair and being able in many different ways. Some to show and be around all my of them don’t care, and some of friends that I’ve been showing them act like they’re dying.” Her goats often become more against for years,” Gaisford said. Gaisford is entering her senior clingy once she takes them to the year at Powell High School and fairgrounds, and “they’re like, has been showing animals at the ‘This is all new.’” Gaisford has seen goats rise Park County Fair since she was in popularity at the Park County 10 years old. “I started with my horse, Fair. During her first year, she remembers Pumpkin,” she seeing quite said. a few empty The follow- ‘It’s always really nice stalls in the ing year, Gaisto see how much this goat barn at the ford joined a fairgrounds. local 4-H group, community supports “And then which led her to the FFA and 4-H kids.’ as the years showing goats. “The first Zoie Gaisford went on, you didn’t see that year, I only had one, and he was really obnox- as much,” she said. “Last year, ious, I guess because he didn’t they had to kick the dairy goats have a little buddy,” she said. out of the barn and put them “We started getting two, and into the dairy cow barn, because then it worked out when I got there were so many goats.” A few years ago, Gaisford had into high school and was able to show one for 4-H and one for the Reserve Grand Champion Market Goat and also had the FFA.” Gaisford tried showing sheep, Overall Breeding Doe. For Gaisford, the 2020 fair is but decided to stick with goats. “I just always like showing bittersweet, as it may be her last goats, because they’re just so year showing livestock. After much fun and they have so much graduation, students have one energy,” she said. “People don’t final summer to show, so she has realize it, but they actually are the possibility of returning next pretty hard to work with — year. “But right now as far as I they’re just so stubborn.” They’re also vocal and playful, know, this is gonna be my last and enjoy jumping up on things summer because I’m trying to get into the Marine Corps,” Gaisin their pen. When asked what she’s ford said. “Depending on when learned through 4-H and FFA my ship-out date is, there is a projects, Gaisford said, “Defi- chance I’ll be able to show again next year, which I’m crossing my nitely patience.” “You can’t really try to rush fingers for.” As she prepares for what may things,” she said. “I’ve learned how to deal with animals, and be her final fair, Gaisford is I’ve learned the proper way to thankful for the support she has raise them and that they need received over the years. “The buyers are always so a lot more attention than you generous when it comes to how would think.” Gaisford has two goats this much they spend,” she said. “It’s year, Hunter and Gunnar. They always really nice to see how were born around January, and much this community supports she picked them up in early the FFA and 4-H kids.”
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uyers at Saturday’s Junior Livestock Sale will have a tough time finding a local butcher if they haven’t made arrangements already. “All the local processing plants are booked up, all the way into December, and some are into January already,” said Joe Bridges, chairman of the sale committee. Sale leaders are working with Matt Froehlich, owner of Matt’s Custom Meats in Saint Anthony, Idaho, and the business “is willing to take any of the animals that come through the sale or any of the companion animals that people have.” “We will put them on a truck Sunday morning after the sale, Bridges said. “There is no charge to get them shipped to
Idaho.” Lane Friedly has donated his time, truck and trailer to transport the livestock, and Matt’s Custom Meats will pay for the fuel for the truck to get there and back. “He's got a feedlot that will drop the animals off and then he will take care of them per instructions for everybody,” Bridges said. “Three to four weeks later, he has a refrigerated cargo trailer that he will bring all the meat back to Powell.” Buyers will then meet at the Northwest College Ag Pavilion to pick up their meat. “So all they have to do is just pay normal processing fees to Matt,” Bridges said. If a buyer wants an animal processed and doesn’t already have a date established at a local processing plant, “we encourage them to go down this
path,” he said. While it’s typical to have some difficulty getting an animal processed this time of year — “there’s just not enough places,” Bridges said— the pandemic has made it especially challenging. Instead of going to the grocery store to buy meat, people are trying to get their own animals processed. Some animals also were sold at low prices “because they couldn't find a place to take them and they needed them off the feed floor, Bridges said. “An animal that's ready to go now can't wait until December to be processed — the meat will not be the quality that it should be,” he said. “We're tickled to death that Matt [Froehlich] stepped up to the plate for us on this and made this work so that we could then send a semi load over there.”
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Sale: Buyers can place their bids remotely Continued from Page 1 for more than 15 years. As the 2020 sale brings new changes and challenges, Bridges said he’s looking forward to the addition of the online bidding. “I'm excited to not only fix the issue that health concerns brought to us this year, but to take a look at this for down the road,” he said. “What does this bring to the table for the future?” Many equipment auctions and horse sales have moved to online formats in recent years. “Across the country, the junior livestock sales have stayed true to the old school method,” Bridges said. He spent a lot of time on the phone with people across America, “trying to get this put together to make sure we did it right.” Bridges said he didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, but wanted to see what other junior livestock sales had experienced.
“And there was nobody out there,” he said. “Everybody had the exact same questions I had, trying to figure out how to put this together, and there were auction companies that were scrambling trying to help.” He said the Park County Fair’s sale is “extremely fortunate” to have MM Auction Services available. “We're excited to bring them on board with us and to see … if this is something of the future or if this is just to get us through this year,” Bridges said. Sale leaders will get the Powell-based company the sale order once it’s put together, which is usually sometime Friday night. “I don't know exactly how quick they will have that available for everybody,” he said. “That's a little bit of an unknown because typically when they're doing auctions, that sale order has been put together for months now.” The tight turnaround has been “a little bit of a concern on their end, but they've got the man-
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Sebastien McCarty walks one of his top steers while preparing for the county fair. Despite being outweighed by the prime steer by about 1,200 pounds, McCarty has worked with cattle since he was 6 and is confident around his herd of 20 head — even when they would rather be eating the green grass on the other side of the fence. Tribune photos by Mark Davis
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t’s been a tough year to be the president. But Sebastien McCarty isn’t going to let the pandemic change his commitment to his calves and his leadership of the Heart Mountain 4-H Club. At 16, McCarty is already an experienced cattleman. He’s been running a herd of club calves for just shy of a decade. He received his first two calves when he was 6 and has built an impressive herd from there. McCarty now runs 20 cattle — the best of which are shown across the Rocky Mountain region. The Park County Fair marks the end of show season. He’ll sell his prize steers and then start the process all over again, “burning the tires off” his truck to find good calves for the next year. “All us livestock kids, we have to work with our animals all year round to get them ready for one week,” McCarty said. It’s not an easy task, but one he was seemingly born into. His father, Mark McCarty, is the manager of the historic Two Dot Ranch. Sebastien McCarty has never known another kind of life. He grew up in the Two Dot headquarters home, a former stage coach stop east of Cody, located along the scenic Chief Joseph Highway. There, among mature cottonwoods, hills filled with toothy and tasty wildlife and 72,000-plus acres to roam, he’s grown accustomed to walking out his front door and into the beauty of the outdoors. And that’s where he’d like to stay. Though McCarty hasn’t settled on a career path, he knows it will be something in the great outdoors. “I really can’t stand the thought of an office job,” he said as the cottonwood seeds filled the air. While he has a great start in the cattle industry, he also has dreamed of being a game warden. At 16, he really doesn’t need a
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plan yet. Caring for livestock and training for summer shows is an endless job. But this year, as activities are scaled back or canceled, it is hard for some to get
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“It’s been fun watching him grow up and seeing him take a leadership role,” Low said. “He’s a model club member.” McCarty has three steers to show and he’s helping his brother, Matthieu, prepare for the fair with a calf he raised, named Bubbles. It sounds cute, but at more than 1,300 pounds, he’s definitely a chore. Getting a rope on a calf is the hardest part. After that they calm See McCarty, Page 10
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McCarty: ‘It’s the entire community that I like’ Continued from Page 9 down and even seem to enjoy time with humans. Bubbles likes to get scratched behind the ears. This year’s Park County Fair has an abbreviated schedule due to COVID-19. “I think it’s gonna be pretty weird this year,” McCarty said. “The fact that we show up one day, show our calves and then leave … that’ll be a little bit different than normal.” He plans to make do this year and hopes for a better schedule the next. McCarty only has a couple years left in 4-H. Just being able to go to shows and the excitement of winning keeps him motivated. “It’s a feeling like no other,”
he said while working with his top steer. Though he’s done his share of winning, McCarty is still humble, barely mentioning his awards. “That’s the great thing about this program,” said his father, Mark. “It teaches you how to win and it teaches you how to lose. It keeps you humble.” Raising cattle has also forced Sebastien McCarty to grow up quickly. Even though he loves to ski and hunt, he also knows his livestock are counting on him. “The program teaches the kids responsibility. They know they’ve got to get up every morning and feed and take care of their livestock,” Mark said. The fair is also a rare mo-
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ince she started showing rabbits about a halfdozen years ago, Aryanna Minemyer has learned a lot. When she took her rabbits to last year’s fair, “I was more prepared. I kind of knew what I was doing, especially with my market rabbits.” Her years of hard work and lessons paid off. “Last year was the ray of sunshine,” Minemyer said. “My rabbits did really well in everything for each show.” One of her rabbits, named Ghost, was named the Grand Champion Market Rabbit at the 2019 Park County Fair. Last year’s reserve champion also got his start at Minemyer’s home, as he was her rabbits’ baby. Minemyer currently has 11 rabbits — six adults and five babies. All of them are
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how to stand still while the judges examine them. “I try to get better at it every day,” he said. Besides showing his sheep, he raises about 30 to 40 breeding ewes, which he sells to other kids who raise and show sheep. Mehling said it’s like a part-time job, but he enjoys the work. “It’s something to do during the summer and a good way to make money,” he said. Having graduated this year, he’s now getting ready to head off to Black Hawk College in Kewanee, Illinois. He said he chose the college because he wanted to go to school out of state, and he liked their campus. He’s entering an agriculture transfer study program and then he plans to complete a degree in animal science after he transfers. At Black Hawk, he’ll still be a part of animal shows as a member of the college’s livestock judging team. Mehling has won a number of awards for his lambs and hogs over the years, but he isn’t quick to talk about his success.
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t the annual Junior Livestock Sale, kids and their livestock will be in the limelight — as they should be. But quietly behind the scenes, volunteers work countless hours throughout the year to make the sale possible. “They’re really the unsung heroes of this deal,” said Joe Bridges, chairman of the Park County Junior Livestock Sale Committee. “It doesn’t happen without their involvement and dedication that they have to these kids.” Jennifer Triplett serves as secretary and JuneAnn Nelson is the treasurer. This marks Nelson’s final year in the position, and Andrea Mehling has been training with her so she’s ready to take the reins as treasurer. “There’s no way to really keep track of how much time and effort and sweat and tears and blood and whatever else happens along the way that those three put into this,” Bridges said. “... The kids will never know. And the neat thing about it is, none of them want the kids to know. They’re doing it for the good.” He said he “can’t give them enough kudos for what they do.” “I tell people all the time I make lots of promises and they’re the ones that have to fulfill it,” Bridges said. The volunteers are also quick to point out that it’s an entire group of people working together, from folks helping at the sale to others working with youth throughout the year. “The FFA advisers and the 4-H leaders, the extension office and the people that work at the fair office,” Triplett said.
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an interview. “It’s 4-H and FFA in general — it doesn’t matter if it’s a welding project or if it’s a cooking project or whatever it is,” Triplett said. “Those are invaluable life skills that you’re not going to get anywhere else.” Caring for animals requires
hard work and dedication for many months leading up to the fair. “These aren’t easy projects,” said Nelson. “Most of these kids put a lot of time and effort into these animals.” For beef kids, their projects begin in October, Triplett said.
“By the time they come to fair, they’ve been at it a long time,” she said. Triplett knows firsthand the hard work involved with projects, as she grew up in 4-H and FFA. “I think it’s important to give back,” she said. “Somebody obviously volunteered their time when I was young, or else we wouldn’t have had the program we had, so if I can donate my time, then it’s a good way for me to give back.” Just like 4-H and FFA youth, committee members’ work spans months throughout the year. “I have a little bit of work to do every month, simply because you know, you have to make sure the bank accounts are right,” said Nelson. In January, steers are tagged, then hogs, goats and lambs follow in May and rabbits in June. July is a busy month setting up the sale, especially this year with the addition of an online component. Work doesn’t wrap up quickly after the fair. “Basically from sale day till probably the end of September, mid-October, I kind of work on the sale every day,” Nelson said. That includes checking with the processing plants to make sure animals were dropped off, because kids don’t get their checks until animals are delivered to the buyer. “So we have to track all those animals so we have to know where they are,” Nelson said. “And then once the buyer has paid and the animal has been delivered, then we release payments to the kids.” A total of 240 youth sold their See Volunteers, Page 13
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An Earhart family tradition The Earhart family has a long history of showing livestock at the Park County Fair. Larry Earhart began showing cattle at the Park County Fair around age 8, and he still helps his grandkids today almost 70 years later. His daughter, Andrea Earhart, started showing cattle in the open show at the Park County Fair as soon as she was school age.
Following in Andrea’s footsteps, her son, Holden Cooper, showed his first calf in 2010 when he was 5 years old. “He used a cow/calf pair with a 15-year-old cow that was one of my old show heifers,” Andrea said. Her daughter, Hadley, also has been showing since she was 5. Hadley is now 12, “and she is probably the most committed of all of us,” Andrea
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Let Powell Electric Pebbles, Michael Maddox’s show hog, slurps up a drink. Maddox said, once trained, his show hogs become a lot like dogs. Tribune photos by Kevin Killough “They were gone almost instantly,” he said. Running the farm, along with maintaining a full-time job, keeps the teenager pretty busy. He gets up at 5 a.m., checks on his hogs, and then gets to work by 6. He comes home at 4 p.m. and takes care of the animals: walking them, checking for bug bites or other health issues, rinsing them off, feeding them and oiling them down. He doesn’t finish up until 8 or 8:30 p.m., but he
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